The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Dahlonega, While Leading an Officer
to Arrest a Man Charged with Kid
mapping Mrs. Hulda Moore Still at
Large and Defying the Authorities.
GEORGIA.
Mrs Anne Lumpkin Alden, aged 81, died
at Macon Sunday. She was a daughter of
Gov. Nelson Lumpkin.
A negro boy about 10 years of age, while
riding on Foy & Co.'S tram engine, near
Rocky Ford Monday, was thrown off and
badly hurt. He had two fingers cut G IF and
received internal injuries He will recover.
Tom Davis, who shot and MORALLY
wounded KiZzie Ray on Dec. IL, has been
captured by Sheriff Alexander and lodged
in Jail at Elberton to answer to the charge
of assault with intent TO murder. 1t is
thought that Ray will die
J. T. McCarty, for many years the editor
of the Elberton Gazette, but more recently
of Washington. d. c., died on Monday and
his remains were taken to Elberton, where
they were taken in charge and buried by
the Knights of Honor, of which order he was
member.
The ladies of Augusta have adopted a
singular plan of saving all the five-cent
pieces that they receive in change, and one
lady, it is said, has saved $40 in nickels in
foot and are saving their nickels to obtain
their object One lady says she is saving to
buy house.
Buck, John Mills big greyhound, slept
in the Ordinary's office at Griffin a night
or two ago, and in his feverish unrest
turned over every inkstand in the Office and
nearly pushed large table out of the room.
He appeared the next morning with each
paw a different color of ink, making an APP
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price from a Snowman.
The surveying corps Of the G.. C. and N.
railroad are located about four miles west
of Elberton, and are now engaged in MAX
ing the final survey, to cross Broad river at
Deadwyler's ferry thence via Elberton to
Lasseurs Island, in Savannah river. This
route has been recommended as the most
practical and will be the one adopted 1t is
now settled thing that the road will
be built and will go by Elberton.
At Atlanta Monday, 7. 4. Veal, Sanitary
Inspector, ran upon cargo of secondhand
clothing, which had been shipped to At
lanta from Charleston. The clothing came
in three lots, and in the three lots there
were nearly two thousand articles. Some
of the articles are worthless, while other
pieces are quite good. The clothing will
be, if passed by the inspector, thrown upon
the shelves in some of the second hand
clothing houses in Atlanta.
Ebert county has three candidates in the
field for Senatorial honors from the
Thirtieth district, namely: John P. Shan
non, prominent lawyer Of Elberton, and
j. w. McCalla and A. o. Harper, both
prominent and influential citizens of the
county. OF these three gentlemen it is hard
to say which will be the successful candi-
date. While it is Ebert county's time ac-
cording to the rotation system to say who
shall be Senator from that district, it is the
general opinion that Oglethorpe will put
out candidate when the proper time
comes
This weeks issue of the Dahlonega Signal
gives a story of remarkable detail. 1t
seems that eight or ten years ago man
named Barnes was murdered near the line
of Fannin county, Georgia, and Polk county,
Tennessee, the mans head being split open
with an ak, from which he died in a short
time. Joseph B. Myers was suspected of
committing the murder and he fed from
the county, nobody knew where. He was
searched for, and large reward was offered
for his arrest. Time passed and the murder
was forgotten, and the murderer was not
found. On Wednesday last lawyer of
Maysville. Jackson county, accompanied
by a man calling himself Myers,
of the same county, came here with a
warrant against "Devil" Jim Higgins, of
this county, for kidnapping. The warrant
charged Higgins with kidnapping a child
on Nov. so from Mrs. Myers. She was the
mother of the child by q former husband
named Ray. The child was relative of
Higgins, and he wanted it; so he took it and
brought it to his home in this county
Myers requested Marshal Townsend to ac-
company him to assist in the enforcement of
the warrant or the recovery of the child
Higgins lives about eight miles from Dab
lonega, and on arriving at the home of Hig-
gins everything was in confusion. The two
men were met by the whole Higgins family,
one of the boys having a gun. another one
of the family an ak, and SO on. The Mar
shall, who is also a constable read the war
rant, when Higgins surprised the officer by
stating that Myers was the murderer of
Barnes and that he had fed and harbored him
many days when Myers was hiding from
arrest. The officer was surprised, but hav-
ing recollection of the murder, and also
having been told before that Higgins had
fed and harbored Myers, he Immediately
placed Myers under arrest, and summoned
Constable Walker, of that district, to assist
him. He then placed Myers under Walkers
care and proceeded to arrest Higgins on the
charge OF kidnapping. The two prisoners
were brought to town and, Higgins having
agreed to give up the child, the warrant
was dismissed against him and Myers was
committed to Jail. Myers acknowledged to
Sheriff Sattertield that he had hit Barnes
in the head with an ak in Tennessee, but did
it in self-defense. Others claim that the
murder was committed in Georgia. There
is some dispute, and the Sheriff is now in
yestigating the matter
Danielsville, Ga, correspondence Atlanta
Constitution Mrs. Hulda Moore has out
witted the officers at last, and is now hid out
among friends. At last September term OF
our Superior Court Judgment was obtained
against Mr.. John Moore, husband of the
famous Mrs. Hulda Moore, for attorneys
fee. A motion or new trial was defeated,
but served to postpone collection till the
January sale. Sheriff Scarborough pro
ceeded to levy, but desisted in the face
of Mrs. Moore's fair promises and on Mon
day Mrs. Moore came up ostensibly to settle,
bringing certificates of deposit from the
National Bank of Athens. She requested
Mr.. Strickland, plaintiff in the H. ia.
to write a receipt in full, which
he did. She then requested to see
both receipt and fl. ia. After scrutinizing
them she placed them in her pocket and de
parted. The Sheriff took out a possessory
warrant and followed. Fair promises again
prevailed. Failing to meet her engagement
again the Sheriff went to arrest Mrs. Moore,
but found her armed and defiant, threaten
ing murder if he attempted to enter the
house. The Sheriff returned without a
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